Scientific Publications

2024

Anselin, J., Holland, P. R., Jenkins, A., & Taylor, J. R. (2024). Ice base slope effects on the turbulent ice shelf-ocean boundary current. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1–41. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-23-0256.1

Bravo, H., Dromard, C. R., van der Meer, M. T. J., Schleimer, A., & Meij, S. E. T. va. der. (2024). Dining on corals: stable isotope evidence for close trophic connection between gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) and their stony coral hosts. Symbiosis, 92(1), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-024-00976-6

Brevet, M., Jaquemet, S., Wagner, J., Kiszka, J. J., & Brevet, M. (2024). Influence of environmental variables, small-scale fisheries and vessel traffic on the distribution and behavior of bottlenose dolphins in a tropical lagoon. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.582495

Duflot, M. L., Gillet, A., Jones, K. E., Sabin, R., Lanzetti, A. (2024). Ontogenetic changes in shape and growth rate during postnatal development in false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) vertebral column. Marine Mammal Science. e13126. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13126

Gillet, A., Jones, K. E., Pierce, S. E. (2024). Repatterning of mammalian backbone regionalization in cetaceans. Nature Communications: 15, 7587. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51963-w

2023

Anselin, J., Reed, B. C., Jenkins, A., & Green, J. A. M. (2023). Ice Shelf Basal Melt Sensitivity to Tide-Induced Mixing Based on the Theory of Subglacial Plumes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(4), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019156

Gallagher, K. M., & Albano, P. G. (2023). Range contractions, fragmentation, species extirpations, and extinctions of commercially valuable molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea—a climate warming hotspot. ICES Journal of Marine Science80(5), 1382-1398. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad065

Gregory Dal Toé, S., Neal, M., Hold, N., Heney, C., Turner, R., McCoy, E., Iftikhar, M., & Tiddeman, B. (2023). Automated Video-Based Capture of Crustacean Fisheries Data Using Low-Power Hardware. Sensors, 23, 7897. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23187897

2022

Gillet, A., Frédérich, B., Pierce, S. E., Parmentier, E. (2022). Iterative habitat transitions are associated with morphological convergence of the backbone in delphinoids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 29: 931-946. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09615-7 Full text here.

Mittelheiser, L., Lepoint, G., Gillet, A., Frédérich, B. (2022). Ecomorphology of six goatfish species (Mullidae) from Toliara Reef, Madagascar. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 105: 1015-1032. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01308-7

Zantis, L. J., Bosker, T., Lawler, F., Nelms, S. E., O’Rorke, R., Constantine, R., Sewell, M., & Carroll, E. L. (2022). Assessing microplastic exposure of large marine filter-feeders. Science of the Total Environment, 818, 151815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151815

2021

Penketh, L., Schleimer, A., Labaja, J., Ponzo, A., Araujo, G., & Snow, S. (2021). Scarring patterns of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, at a provisioning site in the Philippines. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(1), 99–111. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3437

Ramp, C., Gaspard, D., Gavrilchuk, K., Unger, M., Schleimer, A., Delarue, J., Landry, S., & Sears, R. (2021). Up in the air: drone images reveal underestimation of entanglement rates in large rorqual whales. Endangered Species Research, 44, 33–44. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01084

Schleimer, A. (2021). Population biology of fin whales: Applying demographic and evolutionary approaches to studying populations. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.159648394

Terrapon, M., Kiszka, J. J., & Wagner, J. (2021). Observations of Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Feeding Behavior in the Tropical Waters of the Northern Mozambique Channel Island of Mayotte, Southwest Indian Ocean. Aquatic Mammals, 47(2), 196–205. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.47.2.2021.196

Zantis, L. J., Carroll, E. L., Nelms, S. E., & Bosker, T. (2021). Marine mammals and microplastics: A systematic review and call for standardisation. Environmental Pollution, 269, 116142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116142

2020

Chazot, J., Hoarau, L., Carzon, P., Wagner, J., Sorby, S., Ratel, M., & Barcelo, A. A. (2020). Recommendations for Sustainable Cetacean-based tourism In French Territories: A Review on the Industry and Current Management Actions. Tourism in Marine Environments, 15, 211–235. https://doi.org/10.3727/154427320X15943351217984

Remili, A., Gallego, P., Pinzone, M., Castro, C., Jauniaux, T., Garigliany, M., Malarvannan, G., Covaci, A., Das, K. (2020). Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeding off Mozambique and Ecuador show geographic variation of persistent organic pollutants and isotopic niches. Environmental Pollution, 267, 115575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115575

2019

Gillet, A., Frédérich, B., Parmentier, E. (2019). Divergent evolutionary morphology of the axial skeleton as a potential key innovation in modern cetaceans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286: 20191771. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1771

Schleimer, A., Ramp, C., Delarue, J., Carpentier, A., Bérubé, M., Palsbøll, P. J., Sears, R., Hammond, P. S. (2019). Decline in abundance and apparent survival rates of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Ecology and Evolution, 9:4231–4244. http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5055.

Schleimer, A., Ramp, C., Plourde, S., Lehoux, C., Sears, R., & Hammond, P. (2019). Spatio-temporal patterns in fin whale Balaenoptera physalus habitat use in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 623, 221–234. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13020.

2018

Gansen, C., Hoeneveld, J. L., & Poot, J. (2018) Predicting harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) activity in the Eastern Scheldt. Final project report. Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden. Report available here.

McCoy, E., Burce, R., David, D., Aca, E. Q., Hardy, J., Labaja, J., Snow, S. J., Ponzo, A., & Araujo, G. (2018). Long-term photo-identification reveals the population dynamics and strong Site fidelity of adult whale sharks to the coastal waters of Donsol, Philippines. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 271. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00271

2017

Thomson, J. A., Araujo, G., Labaja, J., McCoy, E., Murray, R., & Ponzo, A. (2017). Feeding the world’s largest fish: Highly variable whale shark residency patterns at a provisioning site in the Philippines. Royal Society Open Science, 4(9). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170394

2015

Schleimer, A., Araujo, G., Penketh, L., Heath, A., McCoy, E., Labaja, J., et al. (2015). Learning from a provisioning site: code of conduct compliance and behaviour of whale sharks in Oslob, Cebu, Philippines. PeerJ 3, e1452. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1452

Van Bressem, M. F., Simões-Lopes, P. C., Félix, F., Kiszka, J. J., Daura-Jorge, F. G., Avila, I. C., Secchi, E. R., Flach, L., Fruet, P. F., Du Toit, K., Ott, P. H., Elwen, S., Di Giacomo, A. B., Wagner, J., Banks, A., & Van Waerebeek, K. (2015). Epidemiology of lobomycosis-like disease in bottlenose dolphins Tursiops spp. from South America and southern Africa. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 117(1), 59–75. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02932

Víkingsson, G. A., Pike, D. G., Valdimarsson, H., Schleimer, A., Gunnlaugsson, T., Silva, T., et al. (2015). Distribution, abundance, and feeding ecology of baleen whales in Icelandic waters: have recent environmental changes had an effect? Front. Ecol. Evol. 3, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00006